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JOHN J. PRATT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ttnitzh fi WW W Letters Patent No. 113,090, dated March 28, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN ELECTROPLATING LETTERS AND NUMBERS ON METALLIC PLATES FOR SIGNS, 8w.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, J OHN J. PRATT, of New York city, in the county.

, letters, &c., intact and not plated; then the signs, 860.,

are burnished, which removes the paint, leaving the letters, figures, &c.,de pressed below the plating. They can be painted to suit the taste, or, if upon brass or copper, left without coloring.

I claim as my invention- 1. The improved process for forming letters, figures,

and the like on metal plates herein shown and described. v

2. The new manufacture herein described, using metal-plates suitable for signs, door-plates, or labels, with letters or figures formed by electroplating, as

set forth. 7

JOHN J. PRATT.

Witnesses: I

[11. s.] H. D. J. PRATT, [n s.] Gno. L. BEEDAN. 

